Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilostomatoida 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Hexanauplia
Subclassis: Copepoda
Infraclassis: Neocopepoda
Superordo: Podoplea
Ordo: Cyclopoida
Subordo: Poecilostomatoida

Familia: Splanchnotrophidae
Genus: Splanchnotrophus
Species: Splanchnotrophus helianthus

Name

  • Splanchnotrophus helianthus Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2012: figs. 1C, D5, 7
Holotype: NSMT–Cr 22244, ♀, ex body cavity of Thecacera pennigera (Montagu) (Nudibranchia: Polyceridae).
Type locality: Off Matoba Beach, Takehara, Hiroshima, Seto Inland Sea, Japan (34°19'29"N, 132°55'21"E), 15 m depth, 17 February 2009.
Etymology: The specific name “helianthus” is from the Latin meaning sunflower. The live body color of this new species is yellowish, and the egg sacs attached on the host nudibranch look like flowers.

References

  • Uyeno, Daisuke & K. Nagasawa, 2012: Four new species of splanchnotrophid copepods (Poecilostomatoida) parasitic on doridacean nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Opistobranchia) from Japan, with proposition of one new genus. ZooKeys, 247: 1–29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.247.3698 .
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